A Southwest Key Program facility near 14th Street and Thomas Road is seen July 10, 2018.(Photo11: Rob Schumacher/The Republic)

A former youth care worker at a Southwest Key migrant shelter in Mesa was sentenced by a federal judge to 19 years in state prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release.

Levian D. Pacheco, 25, of Phoenix, was convicted by a federal juryin September of seven counts of abusive sexual contact with a ward and three counts of sexual abuse of a ward, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.